Security

Cloud

Palo Alto Networks rebrands and upgrades cloud products within new Prisma suite

May 29, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks rebrands and upgrades cloud products within new Prisma suite
Prisma is basically a ‘Branding Plus’ exercise, where the big news is the rebranding of existing products into a new suite, but the products receive some enhancements – with more to come – to make them work more smoothly together.

Managed Services

RapidFire Tools adds new Audit Guru for Cyber Insurance module

May 29, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on RapidFire Tools adds new Audit Guru for Cyber Insurance module
This module joins existing ones for GDPR and HIPAA, and will be followed by others as RapidFire Tools adds additional functionality to the Audit Guru platform.

Security

Barracuda adds more proactive defense capability with Barracuda Advanced Bot Protection

May 28, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda adds more proactive defense capability with Barracuda Advanced Bot Protection
Barracuda enhances protection against bots in their WAF and WAF-as-a-Service platforms with new machine learning and AI abilities.

Hyper-converged

StorMagic adds key management, KVM hypervisor support to HCI platform

May 24, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic adds key management, KVM hypervisor support to HCI platform
Both the new StorSecure Encryption and Key Management capability, which removes the need for third party key management products, and the KVM support significantly lower the total cost of a StorMagic deployment, an important consideration considering most of their deployments are small ones.

Internet of Things

D-Link camera vulnerability allows attackers to tap into the video stream

May 22, 2019 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on D-Link camera vulnerability allows attackers to tap into the video stream
ESET researchers highlight a series of security holes in a device intended to make homes and offices more secure

Security

Trend Micro improves DevOps lifecycle protection with enhancements to containers in Deep Security

May 21, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Trend Micro improves DevOps lifecycle protection with enhancements to containers in Deep Security
Trend Micro both integrates and enhances its developer-focused and container-based protection, to give a fuller protection to DevOps environments.

Managed Services

Kaseya remodels Powered Services using philosophies of just-acquired ID Agent

May 7, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaseya remodels Powered Services using philosophies of just-acquired ID Agent
Monday, Kaseya announced the acquisition of ID Agent, and consolidated all their security solutions in that business. Tuesday, they are rebooting their turnkey Powered Services offerings – with some major conceptual additions from ID Agent.

Cloud

Sophos updates partners on market landscape, with new support measures later in the year

May 6, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sophos updates partners on market landscape, with new support measures later in the year
The theme for the Sophos partner kickoff this year was Evolve, and a key element of this will be how partners can best evolve themselves, with Sophos’ support, to meet evolving cybersecurity challenges.

Security

NIST cybersecurity resources for smaller businesses

April 30, 2019 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on NIST cybersecurity resources for smaller businesses
SMB customers looking to learn more about security? ESET offers some new resources available to them from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Mobility

Dell Technologies unveils ‘cross-Dell’ Unified Workspace solution

April 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies unveils ‘cross-Dell’ Unified Workspace solution
The Dell Technologies Unified Workspace is a new client solution launched collaboratively with VMware, Dell Client Services and Secureworks, which brings multiple components together into what is effectively a single SKU for customers.